Bookstore Quotes

119 Bookstore quotes by 107 unique authors

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. — Rick Moody
The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result,… — John Katzman
Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield… — Dave Barry
It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore. — George Packer
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time. — Mireille Guiliano
I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell… — Robert Crais
I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something… — E L Doctorow
After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of… — Umberto Eco
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook… — Jonathan Safran Foer
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department,… — Carl Hiaasen
I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me. — Erik Larson
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one… — Unknown Author
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got… — Jason Mraz
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do.… — Nathan Myhrvold
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you… — Bill Nye
If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and… — James Patterson
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. — Jerry Seinfeld
I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything. — Reese Witherspoon
I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore. — Randy Pausch
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. — Carolyn Heilbrun
Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved… — Karen Joy Fowler
The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own… — Jerry Spinelli
The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of… — Richard Brautigan

Who Wrote These Bookstore Quotes

107 authors contributed a total of 119 Bookstore Quotes, led by these top contributors: